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  NASA selects SpaceX, Blue Origin to land humans on Moon in 2024

  Science | May 01, 2020 8:27 IST

  NASA's commercial partners will refine their lander concepts through the contract base period ending in February 2021. During that time, the agency will evaluate which of the contractors will perform initial demonstration missions.

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  Asteroid '1998 OR2' to fly past within 3.9m miles of Earth today

  Science | April 29, 2020 8:13 IST

  Asteroid 1998 OR2 was discovered by the Near-Earth Asteroid Tracking program at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in July 1998, and for the past two decades astronomers have tracked it.

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  NASA engineers build low-cost ventilator to fight COVID-19

  Science | April 24, 2020 14:49 IST

  VITAL is designed to treat patients with milder symptoms, thereby keeping the nation's limited supply of traditional ventilators available for patients with more severe COVID-19 symptoms.

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  New Earth-like planet Kepler-1649 discovered

  Science | April 20, 2020 7:50 IST

  A new Earth-like planet Kepler-1649 has been discovered by NASA's Long dead Kepler Space Telescope. The planet revolves around its star in Goldilocks zone and has the possibility of harnessing life. 

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  'Hubble bubble' hypothesis reveals mystery of universe's expansion

  Science | March 11, 2020 9:27 IST

  A hypothesis by a theoretical physicist from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) states that "the earth, solar system, entire Milky Way and the few thousand galaxies closest to us move in a vast “bubble” that is 250 million light years in diameter, where the average density of matter is half as large as for the rest of the universe."

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  Asteroid alert! Giant orb set to make a pass by earth

  Science | March 07, 2020 14:40 IST

  As the whole world buckled under the strain of Coronavirus, an asteroid up to 2.5 miles wide is set to pass by the Earth next month, though it'll miss by a wide margin of about 4 million miles.   

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  NASA's Curiosity Rover captures high-resolution images of Mars

  Science | March 06, 2020 11:02 IST

  The rover's Mast Camera, or Mastcam, relied on its medium-angle lens to also produce a lower-resolution, nearly 650-million-pixel panorama that includes the rover's deck and robotic arm.

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  NASA's next Mars rover officially named 'Perseverance'

  Science | March 06, 2020 8:09 IST

  Perseverance is the latest in a long line of Red Planet rovers to be named by school-age children, from Sojourner in 1997 to the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which landed on Mars in 2004, to Curiosity, which has been exploring Mars since 2012.

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  New explanation for destructive earthquakes developed

  Science | March 04, 2020 7:36 IST

  Drawing from mathematical models that describe the collisions of rocks during landslides and other debris flows, the researchers developed a model that predicts the potential effects of rock collisions in fault zones.

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  Cotton candy-like planets may actually have rings

  Science | March 03, 2020 10:45 IST

  In our own solar system, all of the gas and ice giant planets have rings, with the most well-known example being the majestic rings of Saturn. But it has been difficult for astronomers to discover ringed planets orbiting distant stars.

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  Milky Way's warp caused by galactic collision

  Science | March 03, 2020 10:25 IST

  With its unique survey of more than one billion stars in our galaxy, Gaia might hold the key to solving this mystery. A team of scientists using data from the second Gaia data release has now confirmed previous hints that this warp is not static but changes its orientation over time.

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  Australian summers now twice as long as winters due to global warming

  Science | March 02, 2020 10:23 IST

  According to the study, global warming is the reason for the long summers, and extreme temperatures make it more dangerous, and vulnerable to natural disasters such as the bushfires that devastated much of the country since they erupted last September.

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  Researchers discover 17 new planets, including one Earth-sized world

  Science | February 28, 2020 12:39 IST

  Of the other 16 new planets discovered, the smallest is only two-thirds the size of Earth - one of the smallest planets to be found with Kepler so far. The rest range in size up to eight times the size of Earth, the study said.

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  Biggest explosion in universe came from black hole

  Science | February 28, 2020 7:21 IST

  The first hint of this giant explosion actually came in 2016. Chandra images of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster revealed an unusual curved edge, but scientists ruled out an eruption given the amount of energy that would have been needed to carve out such a large cavity in the gas.

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  NASA Orion successfully tests critical launch abort system

  Science | February 27, 2020 12:27 IST

  National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on Thursday took to Twitter to announce that the final test of the Orion spacecraft’s attitude control motor (ACM) has been successful. NASA revealed that when the astronauts blast off for their voyage to the Moon on the Orion spacecraft during Artemis missions, they will have protection in the form of the launch abort system (LAS).

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  Earth has a new mini-moon; and it's there since 3 years

  Science | February 27, 2020 11:22 IST

  Our new moon is probably between 1.9 and 3.5 metres across, or roughly the size of a car, making it no match for Earth’s primary moon. It circles our planet about once every 47 days on a wide, oval-shaped orbit that mostly swoops far outside the larger moon’s path.

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  Scientists find animal that doesn't breathe oxygen | Video

  Science | February 27, 2020 13:52 IST

  A new discovery of an 'alien like' marine animal has left scientists baffled. As per reports, the new parasite that has been discovered by marine biologists does not breathe oxygen. Henneguya Salminicola, the tiny organism that resembles sperm cells, reportedly has two tails and 'alien like eyes'. All this is only visible under a microscope as the organism is very small, reports Live Science.

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  NASA's InSight lander helps decode Martian weather

  Science | February 25, 2020 13:07 IST

  InSight's onboard equipments included a seismometer for detecting Mars' quakes, sensors for gauging wind and air pressure, a magnetometer for measuring the planet's magnetic forces, and a probe designed to take the planet's temperature, the American space agency had said in a statement.

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  How newborn stars prepare for birth of planets

  Science | February 21, 2020 7:24 IST

  Astronomers want to know exactly when these disks start to form, and what they look like. But young stars are very faint, and there are dense clouds of dust and gas surrounding them in stellar nurseries. 

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  Mars may periodically see formation of salt water, says research

  Science | February 13, 2020 7:48 IST

  For Mars, the first day without carbon dioxide ice in spring is called the "crocus date." Melting occurs on or immediately after the crocus date, and therefore the term "crocus melting".